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Oldfeller--FSO Serious Thumper ModSquad Offline Hobby is now "concentrated neuropany" Posts: 12686 Fayetteville, NC Gender:	Re: This Year's Tail of the Dragon Trip Reply #1290 - 08/21/10 at 12:01:06 Monday, June 27 thru Sunday, July 2 Wild days in June, "normal" days in July Let's hear some from the normal people -- we got any out there planning on attending this year? Whatcha say, Babyhog?
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MMRanch Serious Thumper Offline Evil flourishes if Good Men do Nothing. Posts: 6023 LYNCHBURG TN Gender:	Re: This Year's Tail of the Dragon Trip Reply #1291 - 08/21/10 at 21:09:35 Toymaker June 27 - July 2 works for me too. Just as long as I get to take the Home Crew to a Fireworks Show it should fly !
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Reply #1292 - 08/22/10 at 19:03:33

Probably not this year, I've got the boy graduating and possibly a wedding coming up. Besides I need some time to sharpen my skills before attempting to keep up with you all. Amazing change in perspective though, I've come back to riding with the same folks I had before and suddenly they seem to be riding SLOW!!! (Mostly retirees riding big cruisers, never gave it a thought before because I never had anything to compare them to!) Grin

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Reply #1293 - 08/23/10 at 10:52:19

Southpaw

Your welcome to drop by anytime (call ahead so I'll know to stay home that day) . I wanted to show you the road going down the back of Moneagle Mountain (Hwy 156) we call it "Jump Off Road" , but we need to be fresh to the road for that one. Pack a little lighter next time and keep the weight LOW. The entertaintment in the back yard was rememberable and next time we'll plan ahead to light the grill.

Is the last week of June going to be it ?

I have to put in for our BoyScout Camp Week soon and doin't want a conflicting schule of events if I can help it.

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Reply #1294 - 08/23/10 at 12:16:34

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What's them there dangly thingies hanging off the sides of your tail fin there, tadpole?

Are them little green froggie legs we see a sproutin' off ya?

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Hurleys are fer HUNTIN', not riding wid

(now that you finally got your wheels on)

Last trip up I gots me two of them, simultaneously

One off of each side of the road

Neither could believe that a full hurley dresser couldn't do anything a fat old man on a feeble single cylinder grandpa cycle could do ....

Had them attempting the next turn at 55 mph trying to keep up with me

you can ask MMRanch or Lancer what they looked like ....

spreading off the road one on each side a mashing them brakes and sparking them floorboards ...

(I dunno, I was already gone by then)

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Reply #1295 - 08/23/10 at 21:38:02

You should have seen it !
Sparks lighting up the shady road and brake-lights just a flashing , then the Gravel a flying ... Quite a site !!

Hope its a while befor I have to see anything like that again #$%^$#!@..

OldFeller you ought to be ashamed of your Froggie Self . Grin

It was a sad sight for sure Undecided

I'm not even sure Harley Season was Open !

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Reply #1297 - 08/24/10 at 05:40:05

I can do Just about any week you guys want.
I was thinking a sunday to sunday trip.
Have tent will travel.. Just have to bring sunday beer.

I get 3 weeks of vacation a year and will be taking the whol week off so why not ride. just have to get the funds allocated from the book keeper/ boss/ wife Cheesy

is the Deals Gap resort still going to be our Base camp?

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ALfromN.H. FSO Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Dragon Slayer Posts: 1421 Rochester, New Hampshire Gender:	Re: This Year's Tail of the Dragon Trip Reply #1299 - 08/24/10 at 14:44:38 Just tell me when and where and I'll be there. AL
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Reply #1300 - 08/24/10 at 20:12:12

Now MMRanch,

I WAS nice to the Hurley guy at the camp ground who wanted to bet me $500 that there was nothing his 600 lb dresser couldn't do better than my bike.

I wuz nice enough take a few minutes to educate him for free, didn't charge him a single red cent for the lesson since it didn't take very long (he also avoided me very carefully the rest of the evening too, since he had been so durn loud & verbal about his $500 braggin' bet).

But the two local kids in the blue Camero on the very last run of the last day right before we loaded back up were the most fun, they wuz stubborn, they wuz. What they lost in the curves they would try to pick back up on the straightaways .... mostly. And they did keep trying, all the way to the campground turn off.

Lancer, you needs to get Rex running again.

I gets all lonely riding around by myself, wid jest testosterone soaked teenagers in sports cars to keep me company.

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Reply #1301 - 08/24/10 at 21:15:24

Oldfeller, riding with the wild bunch was a lot of fun and certainly an "education"! It has led me to believe I need to expand my group of riding buddies. I probably gravitated to those guys because when it comes to riding, I AM "slow folk" like them. That doesn't mean I'm satisfied with my skills, it was just my comfort zone...and they bullsh!t with the best of 'em so the campfires are fun! Economics and opportunities permitting I'd like to come back and try it again sometime.

MMRanch, Likewise, I really appreciated the hospitality and the offer. I'd like to come out and tour around your neck of the woods. I think if the original plan had worked out and the family vacationed around Nashville or Pigeon Forge, both families could have had a lot of fun! As for the midnight singalong, I'm glad you liked that, I hadn't done much with a guitar in ages. Are you sure your neighbors didn't think it was just a couple of old frogs croaking in the night? Grin

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Reply #1302 - 08/25/10 at 10:12:19

Frogs Croking in the Night ... Its a wonder we didn't draw every frog in the neighborhood up to the house !

Deals Gap is a good "Ground Zero" they have breakfast waiting when we get up and Fair prices all day long.

Kel
Sunday to Sunday sounds good to me ---- but I'm not sure how its goona Fly with the Boss ! I have a while to get her BUTTERED up between now and then.
I'm Putting Scout camp the week befor and LOCKING IN.

Toymaker it would be the same without ya ... DMsavage we missed ya last year.

I'd like to get at least one more ride in this year befor Cool weather set in. ?

O.K. ---- We're talking about the last week of June -July 2

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Reply #1303 - 08/27/10 at 04:17:48

I just read part of the "Has anybody taken the motorcycle training course?" and somebody was whining/wishing "I wish a trainer would follow me around and offer me advice on taking turns".

I wanted to slap him/her and tell her to get off him/her's butt and get over to the Dragon during the newbie days.

FOR EXAMPLE

I shamelessly went to school this past year by following BigZuk and Yammakid as that father and son team use late braking techniques to make a lot of speed through turns (far better speed than I was making).

Heck, Al has a video of me doing it that he posted -- and you will notice that I braked when they did in the turns and accelerated when they did (copying them shamelessly to get the particulars down pat). And by the end of the video you will notice that Al couldn't keep up with us either -- he didn't copy their tricks as good as I did.

Speed and skill are LEARNED by intentionally copying folks techniques who do it better than you do.

I do it, so do you.

Dragon days are advanced riding training days -- always have been, always will be.

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Reply #1304 - 08/29/10 at 07:25:57

As with all really neat ideas, somebody thought of it before you did.

Motorcycle Roads has our mountains mapped already, but they chose to call the agressive roads "Red Line Rides" instead of Black Line Rides

.... here's their mapping of the roads around Black Mountain area.

http://www.motorcycleroads.us/regions/nc_appalachian.html

These all seem to be major roads still.

I think we got into a little finer detail when we scrounged out some of our better roads last trip up.

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